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records it from the Middle and Southern States, while Schwarz found it 

 abundant at Biscayne bay, Florida. Dr Smith states that it occurs com- 

 monly throughout New Jersey, and we have met it in the vicinity of 

 Albany. It has al.so been reported from Newport and Buffalo. 



Food plants. We have reared this insect in numbers from sumac, 

 while Dr Smith states that it occurs on sumac berries of the previous year. 

 Mr Beutenmuller records apple as a food plant in addition to that given 

 above, while Dr Hopkins states that it infests yellow locust twigs on dead 

 trees in West Virginia. 



Natural enemies. A single parasite was reared from infested twigs, 

 presumably from this species. It has been kindly determined by Dr 

 Ashmead as T e m e 1 u c h a f u s i f o r m i s Prov. 



Pityogenes consimilis Lee. 



.\ minute, dark brown or black, cylindric beetle about '/a* inch long, makes the 

 familiar oblique galleries under the bark of decaying sumac twigs, grooving the wood in a 

 very characteristic fashion. 



The work of this species is exceedingly common, easily recognized and 

 of little importance except when the carved branches are sometimes 

 employed in rustic structures. 



Spotted leptostylus 



Leptostybts viacida Say 

 A small, thick, long-horned, brown or chestnut-colored beetle, about ^ inch long, 

 with ash gray markings, may be bred from the dead twigs and wood of a number of 

 trees. 



This is one of our common borers having very similar habits to its 

 ally, L i o p u s alpha Say. It breeds in a wide variety of twigs, having 

 been taken from sumac, witch-hazel, chestnut, oak, walnut and apple. Dr 

 Fitch states that old butternut trees are sometimes filled with the grubs of 

 this little beetle. 



